Re: Lost CLOSE with NFSv4.1 on RHEL7 ( and bejond?)

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On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Mkrtchyan, Tigran
<tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Olga et al.
>
> Finally I was able to to create a reproducer (attached)!
>
> It looks like, if on close client application is interrupted by
> Ctrl+C or SIGINT, then nfs client does not sends CLOSE. I can
> 100% reproduce it on RHEL7 and Fedora24 with 4.6 kernel. The 4.7
> kernel works (side effect of some other change?).
>
> The attached application reads file in a loop. On the second
> iteration a thread is started, which will send SIGINT
> to itself. When CLOSE is lost, you still can read the
> file. Client even won't send any OPEN. So it looks like
> that some where file is marked as open, but corresponding
> process does not exist any more. Even re-mount does not help.
>

Thank you Tigran for a reproducer, I'll check it out and get back to you.

> Best regards,
>    Tigran.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Olga Kornievskaia" <aglo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "Mkrtchyan, Tigran" <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "Andy Adamson" <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux NFS Mailing List" <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Trond Myklebust"
>> <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Steve Dickson" <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 11:22:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: Lost CLOSE with NFSv4.1 on RHEL7 ( and bejond?)
>
>> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Mkrtchyan, Tigran
>> <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Olga,
>>>
>>> we have installed kernel 4.7.0 on one of the nodes and don't see missing
>>> closes from that node.
>>>
>>> Nevertheless, I don't think that the commit you have mentioned is fixing that,
>>> as it fixes OPEN_DOWNGRADE, but we have a sequence of OPEN->CLOSE->OPEN. The
>>> OPEN_DOWNGRADE is not expected - file is already closed when a second open
>>> is sent and both requests using the same session slot.
>>>
>>> Have you seen a similar issue on vanilla or rhel kernel?
>>
>> I had a hard time triggering it consistently. I believe I have seen it
>> on RHEL7.2 kernel but I think I was more consistently seeing it on
>> some upstream (Trond's) kernel version (I think it was around 4.2).
>> The problem was seen by Netapp QA on 4.3-rc7 version.
>>
>> Thanks for testing on the 4.7 version. I'll see what else went in that
>> might explain the failure on the older kernel.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>    Tigran.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Olga Kornievskaia" <aglo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: "Mkrtchyan, Tigran" <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: "Andy Adamson" <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Linux NFS Mailing List"
>>>> <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Trond Myklebust"
>>>> <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Steve Dickson" <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2016 4:52:59 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Lost CLOSE with NFSv4.1 on RHEL7 ( and bejond?)
>>>
>>>> Hi Tigran,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Mkrtchyan, Tigran
>>>> <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>>>
>>>>> I will try to get upstream kernel on one of the nodes. It will take
>>>>> some time as we need to add a new host into the cluster and get
>>>>> some traffic go through it.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the mean while, with RHEL7 we get it easy reproduced - about 10
>>>>> such cases per day. Is there any tool that will help us to see where
>>>>> it happens? Some traces points? Call trace from vfs close to NFS close?
>>>>
>>>> There are NFS tracepoints but I don't know think there are VFS
>>>> tracepoints. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the OPEN tracepoints
>>>> that caused a kernel crash. I had a bugzilla out for RHEL7.2. It says
>>>> it's fixed in the later kernel (.381) but it's currently not back
>>>> ported to RHEL7.2z but hopefully will be soon (just chatted with Steve
>>>> about getting the fix into zstream). I made no progress in figuring
>>>> out what could be causing the lack of CLOSE and it was hard for me to
>>>> reproduce.
>>>>
>>>> Just recently Trond fixed a problem where a CLOSE that was suppose to
>>>> be sent as an OPEN_DOWNGRADE wasn't sent (commit 0979bc2a59) . I
>>>> wonder if that can be fixing this problem....
>>>>
>>>>> There is a one comment in the kernel code, which sounds similar:
>>>>> (http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=trondmy/linux-nfs.git;a=blob;f=fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c;h=519368b987622ea23bea210929bebfd0c327e14e;hb=refs/heads/linux-next#l2955)
>>>>>
>>>>> nfs4proc.c: 2954
>>>>> ====
>>>>>
>>>>> /*
>>>>>  * It is possible for data to be read/written from a mem-mapped file
>>>>>  * after the sys_close call (which hits the vfs layer as a flush).
>>>>>  * This means that we can't safely call nfsv4 close on a file until
>>>>>  * the inode is cleared. This in turn means that we are not good
>>>>>  * NFSv4 citizens - we do not indicate to the server to update the file's
>>>>>  * share state even when we are done with one of the three share
>>>>>  * stateid's in the inode.
>>>>>  *
>>>>>  * NOTE: Caller must be holding the sp->so_owner semaphore!
>>>>>  */
>>>>> int nfs4_do_close(struct nfs4_state *state, gfp_t gfp_mask, int wait)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if the comment means to say that there is a possibility
>>>> that NFS won't send a CLOSE (or at least I hope not). I thought that
>>>> because we keep a reference count on the inode and send the CLOSE when
>>>> it goes down to 0. Basically the last WRITE will trigger the nfs close
>>>> not the vfs_close.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> ====
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Tigran.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Andy Adamson" <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> To: "Mkrtchyan, Tigran" <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Cc: "Linux NFS Mailing List" <linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Andy Adamson"
>>>>>> <William.Adamson@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Trond Myklebust"
>>>>>> <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Steve Dickson" <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 7:16:19 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Lost CLOSE with NFSv4.1 on RHEL7 ( and bejond?)
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Tigran
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you test with an upstream kernel? Olga has seen issues around no CLOSE being
>>>>>> sent - it is really hard to reproduce….
>>>>>>
>>>>>> —>Andy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 6:49 AM, Mkrtchyan, Tigran <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear NFS folks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> we observe orphan open-states on our deployment with nfsv4.1.
>>>>>>> Our setup - two client nodes, running RHEL-7.2 with kernel
>>>>>>> 3.10.0-327.22.2.el7.x86_64. Both nodes running ownCloud (like
>>>>>>> a dropbox) which nfsv4.1 mounts to dCache storage. Some clients
>>>>>>> connected to node1, others to node2.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Time-to-time we see some 'active' transfers on data our DS
>>>>>>> which do nothing. There is a corresponding state on MDS.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have traced one one such cases:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - node1 uploads the file.
>>>>>>>  - node2 reads the file couple of times, OPEN+LAYOUTGET+CLOSE
>>>>>>>  - node2 sends OPEN+LAYOUTGET
>>>>>>>  - there is no open file on node2 which points to it.
>>>>>>>  - CLOSE never send to the server.
>>>>>>>  - node1 eventually removes the removes the file
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We have many other cases where file is not removed, but this one I was
>>>>>>> able to trace. The link to capture files:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://desycloud.desy.de/index.php/s/YldowcRzTGJeLbN
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We had ~ 10^6 transfers in last 2 days and 29 files in such state (~0.0029%).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Tigran.
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